Hardware?

The simpliest questions don't seem to have readily available answers:
I need a hardware recommendation!

I use Perl on my own machine to assemble HTML files (no networking
stuff). My current machine is a Mac running OSX Tiger. The MacOS
doesn't seem friendly to Perl, so I want to change to something that
won't make me feel like throwing it out the window.

What hardware and OS might be best for my use? I'd prefer a laptop to
a desktop. (I once worked for Sun Microsystems, so I'm comfortable
with UNIX.)

Thank you very, very, very much.








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Re: Hardware?

SB,
I'm curious why you don't think OS X and perl get along? I'm running 3 =
Macs and I've never had any issues. perl and cpan both run very smoothly =
and I haven't done any special tweaking to get it that way, it did out =
of the box.

What type of issues are you seeing? ...and just curious, but OS X is =
unix. If you're comfortable with unix, you should be right at home with =
OSX.

Eric

On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:05 PM, sb@missionstclare.com wrote:

> The simpliest questions don't seem to have readily available answers: =
I need a hardware recommendation!
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> I use Perl on my own machine to assemble HTML files (no networking =
stuff). My current machine is a Mac running OSX Tiger. The MacOS doesn't =
seem friendly to Perl, so I want to change to something that won't make =
me feel like throwing it out the window.
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> What hardware and OS might be best for my use? I'd prefer a laptop to =
a desktop. (I once worked for Sun Microsystems, so I'm comfortable with =
UNIX.)
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> Thank you very, very, very much.
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Re: Hardware?

On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:05 PM, sb@missionstclare.com wrote:

> I use Perl on my own machine to assemble HTML files (no networking =
stuff). My current machine is a Mac running OSX Tiger. The MacOS doesn't =
seem friendly to Perl, so I want to change to something that won't make =
me feel like throwing it out the window.
>=20
> What hardware and OS might be best for my use? I'd prefer a laptop to =
a desktop. (I once worked for Sun Microsystems, so I'm comfortable with =
UNIX.)

But Mac OS X _is_ Unix. What exactly do you mean by "The MacOS =
doesn't seem friendly to Perl"? If you're messing around with the =
system Perl, you shouldn't be. If you're trying to install Perl =
somewhere else, I know that Tiger can give you some problems. If you =
can upgrade, Snow Leopard is much better.

If you can't upgrade your OS, you should really try installing =
Perlbrew. That has made my programming life an order of magnitude less =
frustrating. Give it a try!

As far as hardware goes, you don't need to upgrade it to run =
Perl. You don't say which Mac you have, but as long as you're not =
running a production server with it, whatever you have should work fine. =
However, if you can max out the RAM, I would at least do that.

Marc=

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